Chapter 909 Saving Big Brother (first update, please subscribe)
Li Yian doesn’t care at all about the Nobel Prize or not. What he cares about is... electric cars!
Lithium battery!
“With lithium batteries, electric cars are not far away!”
After returning to the official residence from the laboratory, Li Yian still felt a little excited.
How can you not be excited!
Lithium batteries are the first step towards breaking the hegemony of the petrodollar.
“With lithium batteries, when the oil crisis occurs, we can take advantage of the trend and take the opportunity to disrupt the status of oil as a pillar energy source!”
In fact, the role of electric vehicles is not only Just break the petrodollar hegemony. It also has a more important role - to dismantle oil's status as a pillar energy source.
Although petroleum is the basic raw material of the chemical industry and has a huge annual demand, automobiles account for 24% of global petroleum consumption. This data highlights the important position of automobiles in the energy field. , and most of the petrochemical industry uses the remaining raw materials produced in the cracking fuel process.
If 80% of the world's cars use new energy vehicles, the demand for gasoline will be significantly reduced, which will inevitably lead to a sharp drop in its price and reduce the importance of oil.
Under such circumstances, while there will be no "oil tycoons" emerging in the Middle East, there will also be a side effect - the Soviet economy will not be highly tied to oil.
“Without the sharp increase in oil prices after the oil crisis, the Soviet Union would not have been able to earn unexpected wealth from oil. Without this unexpected wealth to temporarily cover up basic economic problems, the Soviet Union must promote economic reforms. Instead of taking drastic measures to eliminate self-sufficiency until the end of time."
In another world, why did the Soviet Union's Kosygin reforms stop? Isn’t it just because of oil wealth? When the reform first achieved results, the oil crisis brought in a huge amount of wealth. The Soviet Union was intoxicated with the good times brought by the oil crisis, and watched with gloating as Western capitalist countries suffered from the oil crisis.
So that the Soviet leaders could follow the same pattern and follow the old path without having to worry about institutional reforms and open up the economy. In the end, the Soviet economy relied heavily on oil for foreign exchange. When international oil prices dropped, the Soviet Union's good luck gradually came to an end. The dying Soviet economy, which was covered up by the import of oil and foreign exchange, not only turned on the red light, but all the problems that had been covered up in the past broke out!
At the same time, under various economic blows from the United States, the economic situation of the Soviet Union was deteriorating day by day. At this time, they had neither the funds nor the time to reform. The final economic collapse led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Without the windfall brought by the oil crisis in the 1970s, the Soviet economy would not have been highly tied to oil.
"In other words, whether they like it or not, the Soviet Union must reform its economy, that is, it must unswervingly carry out Kosygin's reforms, even if it is painful, because they have no choice! This It is very possible to completely change the fate of the Soviet Union!"
After thinking about this, Li Yian leaned back on his chair and couldn't help but said in shock.
“Oh my god, I’m going to save Big Brother’s rhythm.” Save the Soviet Union!
There has never been a savior in the world, but now, Li Yian found that he was developing in the direction of a savior.
In another world, a very important reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union was the economic collapse, and this collapse was not without a reason - it was that the economy had stagnated, and the economy had remained rigid for decades. .
According to later generations, the only chance the Soviet Union had to save itself economically was Kosygin’s economic reforms!
Unfortunately, Kosygin’s reform ultimately ended in failure!
What were the reasons for the failure of Kosygin's reforms?
“The state-owned enterprise giants, led by the military-industrial complex, state-owned stores, and collective farms, have obtained huge profits brought about by the new wave of economic plans and the global energy crisis, relying on the exploitation of franchise countries and low output The high-end rough processing products and energy and chemical industries created the "economic boom" in the mid-1970s, allowing conservative forces to completely monopolize the economic system, and while continuously embezzling the economic structure, they formed a severely expanded "state-owned oligarchic" rentier group. , which seriously hindered the economic development and transformation of the Soviet Union, and this abnormal development made it difficult to guarantee people's livelihood in the late Soviet Union. People suffered in the industrial-oriented model of economic sluggishness and spent more than two decades in gloom and gloom. Deactivated low-quality life. During the Khrushchev period, the Soviet Union held a hard-line idealistic view, believing that the Soviet Union's political and economic advantages would be further unleashed and eventually catch up with capitalist countries. During the late Brezhnev administration, a desperate and negative mood pervaded the entire Soviet Union. Everyone knew that the entire society was eating and waiting to die, and only the sales of vodka increased steadily..."
Remembering In another world, analyzed by countless economists and sociologists, Li Yian's brows were slightly raised, the corners of his mouth were turned up, and he even felt like he was beaming.
“Without oil foreign exchange, they had to reform. At that time, the Soviet Union had the time, funds and ability to carry out reforms. In this way, the crisis of the 1980s would not have occurred. Even if a crisis breaks out, it is impossible for a systemic crisis to break out and eventually destroy the entire Soviet Union..."
In fact, he has always been very cautious, even careful, in dealing with the Soviet Union. There is a proverb in Europe: After shaking hands with a Russian, you should carefully check whether one of your fingers has been ripped off.
This is the experience accumulated from hundreds of years of dealing with the Russians. Whether it is correct or not is not yet known, but one thing that is certain is that one must be careful.
But, save the Soviet Union, or let the Cold War continue.
For Nanyang, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.
"As long as the threat of Soviet Russia exists for one day, then the United States must win over Nanyang!"
Thinking of this, Li Yi'an deduced it on paper, just like he had seen it before traveling through Like the protagonist of the book "Starting Deduction, American Tycoon", he began to deduce the future...
(End of this chapter)